Man living at the time of the Patriarchs
Javan
Japheth’s fourth son (Genesis 10:2), whose sons were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim, the peoples of the “islands of the nations” in the northwest (Genesis 10:4–5). Later books use Javan as the name for Greece (Daniel 8:21; Isaiah 66:19).
Family
- Father
- Japheth
- Children
- Elishah, Tarshish